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Having a problem with CURL and the HTTP User and password Auth methods, it is not liking the exclamation mark, I've tried escaping the following ways:
Tried and failed...
/usr/bin/curl -u 'UserName\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation!' https://test.com/ /usr/bin/curl -u UserName\\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation\! https://test.com/ Not working for basic or digest if it matters (using --anyauth) ... getting 401 denied...
What am I doing incorrectly?
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Bash script (detect.sh) When an argument contains a special character (for example, an exclamation point) you must escape the character with a backslash. The backslash should precede the escaped character.
Overview. If we work a lot with the interactive Linux command line, chances are we might have come across the exclamation symbol. On most shells, this symbol is used to rerun previously executed commands through history expansion, thereby, increasing our productivity.
curl -u UserName\\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation\! http://.... works fine.
it sends
GET / HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic VXNlck5hbWVcV2l0aFNsYXNoOlBhc3N3b3JkV2l0aEV4Y2xhbWF0aW9uIQ== User-Agent: curl/7.21.0 Host: teststuff1.com:80 Accept: */* which is "UserName\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation!" in the auth string.
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not that complicated, just use "". at least it works on Linux.
for example:
curl -u "username:passwdwithspecialchar" GET https://.... If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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